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HISTORICAL ASSUMPTIONRuth as Old Woman & Floor Girl

HISTORICAL ASSUMPTIONRuth as Mary Todd Lincoln

HISTORICAL ASSUMPTIONRuth as Emily Dickinson

A POEM

My friend contacted me to record a poem. She was preaching that Sunday and wanted to present something written by a congregation member and friend. The woman who wrote it had watched her 26 year-old son pass away from cancer. She wrote the poem about a passage in the Bible describing a crippled woman, crawling on her hands to see Jesus, who desperately hoped his touch would heal the emotional and physical pain she'd felt, bring her peace of heart, and renew her lost faith in God. I tried to honor this mother's experience and her honest expression of it…

A STORY​

A wintery short story read by Ruth Gamble & Shane Portman for Fairweatherbelle.com